With birth control options expanding faster than Angelina Jolie's brood, choosing
the best birth control option is getting tricky.
My hope is that sharing this information doesn't scare anyone, but rather can be used as an aid to further explore your body and what
the best birth control option is for you!
Planned Parenthood also offers online tools that can help people start a conversation with providers about health care: The Check can help users figure out whether to get tested for STDs and My Method can prepare women for a conversation with their providers about the most appropriate and
best birth control option for them.
Not exact matches
I don't think that its feasible to expect everyone to follow NFP, though I'm personally a huge proponent and believe women need more education on their bodies and menstrual cycles, and condoms while not «moral» persay or in line with the church's teaching are a much
better option than hormonal
birth control or Plan B as they are simply a barrier method not an abortificant.
And a woman who can not afford
birth control is more likely to consider herself unable to afford a pregnancy, which makes terminating that pregnancy seem like the
best, most affordable
option.
We've been hearing about
better male
birth control for years now, but in recent weeks two new promising
options have come to light: RISUG (reversible inhibition of sperm under guidance), being developed by an Indian scientist, Sujoy Guh, and the discovery of a gene, Katnal1, critical for sperm production; if scientists can tweak the gene with a pill, sperm production will be stalled.
It's a
well - established fact that
birth control options containing the synthetic hormone, estrogen, can result in a diminished milk supply, sometimes quite rapidly.
While most women can use the progesterone - only contraceptives, caution should be used when choosing this
birth control option as
well.
Below, we've outlined all the information you need to be sure you have the
best option for your
birth control needs without having to worry about how it might affect your current baby.
However, since pills that contain estrogen contribute to a low milk supply and less time breastfeeding babies, the progestin - only
option, or «mini pill,» is the
best birth control pill while breastfeeding.
When in doubt, pair this method of
birth control with another
option from our list for
best results.
The Today Sponge is another
good short - term
birth control option for women who want to wait a few months before getting pregnant after a miscarriage.
Let's explore the possibility of a second pregnancy during the breastfeeding phase and the
best options for
birth control during this time.
So, for women looking for the most natural and effective type of
birth control, is the IUD the
best option?
One 2011 review by the Cochrane Collaboration found that since combination
birth control pills can reduce the amount and severity of breakouts, they might be a
good option for women who want a contraceptive and are trying to clear up their skin, too.
I assumed that unless I wanted to surgically insert an IUD into my body, (which frightens me, although I hear it works wonders for many) hormonal
birth control was my
best option for preventing unplanned pregnancy.
So for most women, the monophasic
birth control pills represent a
good first
option.
Being that I had been on
birth control prior to my diagnosis and realizing it did me more harm than
good, my only other
option was to not take
birth control.
Her daughters would have access to far more career
options, as
well as
birth control and legal abortions.
Mutual consent based on proper education and factual information (an average of three child -
births per woman leads inevitably to population explosion, and that is a mathematical fact) is, I believe, from a humanitarian view, a much
better option than activizing centralized population
control measures or even highly inefrfective family planning programs.
Without Planned Parenthood, many women would have nowhere else to turn for breast and cervical cancer screening,
well woman exams,
birth control, STD testing and treatment, sex education, and pregnancy
options.
Our services include
birth control, sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing, treatment and HPV vaccine services, breast and cervical cancer screenings,
well - person exams, pregnancy testing and
options counseling, in - clinic abortion and abortion pill, gender - affirming hormone therapy, HIV testing and counseling, PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis), PEP (Post-Exposure Prophylaxis), emergency contraception, and more essential services.
If you're taking EC because you made a mistake with your hormonal
birth control, Plan B or the copper IUD are
better options for you than ella.
Compare
birth control options and find the
best method for you.
We provide expert counseling on a full range of
birth control options — including new methods as soon as they come on the market — plus
well - woman visits, breast and cervical cancer screenings, STD testing and treatment, HPV vaccines, abortion care, LGBTQ - inclusive care, and transgender hormone therapy (select locations).
If you're on another method of hormonal
birth control (like the pill, ring, patch, or shot), ella is not the
best emergency contraception for you — Plan B or a copper IUD are
better options.
Some people prefer non-hormonal
birth control, or can't use methods with hormones because of medical problems — the sponge can be a
good option for them.
«Planned Parenthood is the nation's largest and most trusted voluntary provider of reproductive health services because we provide our patients with unbiased, medically accurate information about the full range of pregnancy
options: parenting, adoption and abortion — as
well as access to
birth control to prevent future unintended pregnancies,» added Foster.
Some people prefer non-hormonal
birth control, or can't use methods with hormones because of medical problems — diaphragms can be a
good option for them.
If you're afraid your partner is messing with your
birth control, you have
options that are more private and that you can
control better, like the IUD, the shot, and the implant.
Teens, along with their parents, can visit their local Planned Parenthood health center to meet with expert health care providers and get more information about sexual health as
well as learn about different
birth control options in order to find a method that's right for them.